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Henri Fayol was born in 1841 amidst the great eruption of the industrial revolution in a suburb of Constantinople (now Istanbul).His father, a military engineer, was appointed superintendent of works to build Galata Bridge, across the Golden Horn. [2]
Fayolism was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized the role of management in organizations, developed around 1900 by the French manager and management theorist Henri Fayol (1841–1925).
Henri Fayol - management (1910s) Armand V. Feigenbaum - quality control (1950s) Tim Ferriss; Harry Anson Finney (1886–1966) - American accountancy author; Ronald Fisher - statistics (1920s) Mary Follett - organizational studies (1930s) Nicolai J. Foss; R. Edward Freeman; Mike L. Fry; Adrian Furnham
In 1916, Henri Fayol formulated one of the first definitions of control as it pertains to management: Control of an undertaking consists of seeing that everything is being carried out in accordance with the plan which has been adopted, the orders which have been given, and the principles which have been laid down.
Henri Fayol (1841–1925) stated: "To manage is to forecast and to plan, to organize, to command, to co-ordinate and to control". [8] Fredmund Malik (1944– ) defines management as "the transformation of resources into utility". [9] Management is included [by whom?] as one of the factors of production – along with machines, materials and money.
Luther Gulick, one of the Brownlow Committee authors, states that his statement of work of a chief executive is adapted from the functional analysis elaborated by Henri Fayol in his "Industrial and General Administration". Indeed, Fayol's work includes fourteen principles and five elements of management that lay the foundations of Gulick's ...
This list of public administration scholars includes notable theorists, academics, and researchers from public administration, public policy, and related fields such as economics, political science, management, administrative law.
Lyndall Fownes Urwick MC (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker.He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration.